Hi lads, can we simmer down with the bickering about John Buckley please? Had to hide a few posts where insults are getting thrown about, we like to see a better standard of discussion and debate on here and we usually do reach said standard, to be fair. We won the game and we are in the play offs for the first time in a long while, so I’d recommend enjoying that instead!

Let’s be honest, there’s no way a manager would be allowed to keep his job if he was relegated from the PL then eventually to L1, so there would be no need for any contingency on this basis!

Not a bad cross at all from Mr Buckley! I did wonder who was getting on the end of it, but fair play to Pickering, right place, right time. Not seen a looping header in a long while!

James, most definitely.

Right, but you’ll happily use your own opinion (which in itself is conjecture), whilst demanding other people supply evidence, which you then dismiss as conjecture. Okay then.

Are you really asking for evidence, dismissing it when given, then offering none of your own?

I feel a bit sorry for Solskjaer in some ways, as he’s been so painfully out of his depth this season. But then, continuing to select Fred and McTominay and not use Van De Beek at all was baffling. Then Van De Beek scored yesterday, four minutes after coming on. The number of red cards suggests a discipline problem, particularly Maguire yesterday (the fact it was two bookings in under ten minutes, I’ve not seen it yet). It’s a big mess that needs to be sorted out in reality and I’ve no idea what manager they could or should go for now!

In the real world, there shouldn’t be any excuses for Mowbray, but we all know, it won’t be his fault….

No shots that half, an attacker gets injured, so we bring on a centre half. Looks like we are protecting the 0-1 defeat.

His credibility is damaged, but not completely smashed to pieces. I think people are using a false equivalency to make a point in some cases.

Rafiq’s comments online were obviously awful and he should be punished for them, like every other player has for their historic tweets that have brought them into disrepute. But those tweets in no way equate to the abuse he suffered over a prolonged period of time, that much should be obvious to anyone really.

Working Mens Club are very good, saw them the other week. It’s a good festival is Tramlines, went a few years back.

Well, only one likely to sign him….

An East London club? Well, there’s only one, so you might as well have just said West Ham tbh.

I’ll always maintain that Rovers fans aren’t any more or less prone to a booing than any other set of fans. This self-loathing from within our fan base is baffling to me.

Don’t you remember them beating us 0-0 at the Euros?

That’s literally only ever happened in your head.

Well, both of those things are just lies. There are plenty of people with different views that post regularly. New posters of all views are welcome and always have been, in fact it’s something that is encouraged. What isn’t encouraged is simply slagging off everyone for having a different opinion, which is what you yourself are doing, and are also criticising posters on here for doing? Why spend any time somewhere that you clearly don’t like?

Always nice to see us win, but apart from a nice ego boost by playing against part timers, I’m really not sure what else we gain from these matches.

I’ll never understand why people think criticising players on the internet is equal to not supporting players at matches. It’s the giant leap of all giant leaps, I’ll be honest.

‘Some clueless people about’. Aye, in the reply section.

Max was always a decent enough one in Hyndburn (just next to Blackburn), but I think they’ve lost a lot of drivers since Covid.

Celtic were miles ahead for ages and he not only narrowed that gap, but he overtook them, which was no mean feat! Granted, he’s a lot more to prove as a manage and I do think this job has probably come around a bit too soon tbh.

Lampard didn’t sort the defence out at Chelsea and it cost him his job in the end. That same defence won the Champions League a few months later. Norwich are seemingly planning to trust him with fixing a massively inferior defence that is shipping goals for fun. Strange old logic from Norwich tbh.

I’ve done 7 episodes of the first season of Succession and I’m really enjoying it. There’s this to blast through, then onto Dexter. (Another one that I want to see the end of, but I’m not that bothered about fundamentally).